Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Tesla, c. 1890
Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan. In his honor, the Nikola Tesla Memorial Center museum was established on the site.
Tesla's father, Milutin, was an Orthodox priest in the village of Smiljan.
Tesla aged 23, c. 1879
Nikola Tesla Museum
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The Nikola Tesla Museum is a science museum located in Belgrade in Serbia. It is dedicated to honoring and displaying the life and work of Nikola Tesla as well as the final resting place for Tesla. It
Nikola Tesla
…as threats of war increased, Tesla sent diagrams to the U.S. War Department, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Plans that surfaced at the Nikola Tesla Museum archive in Belgrade in 1984 described a device using a method of charging slugs of tungsten or mercury to millions of volts and directing them in streams…
View of the front of the museum
A copy of the two phase induction motor from 1887. The original Tesla induction motor from 1887 is in Imperial College London.
Cross-section of asynchronous motor built on Tesla's principles
Induction motor with an egg shaped rotor, popularly called the Egg of Columbus. This is a copy of the original shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893